Garment-holder.



A. M LYCKLAND & H. WACHENHEIMER.

GARMENT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23. 1912.

1,0352 v Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

ARTHUR MQLYCKLAND AN D HARRYWACHENHEIMER, F FROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 4

ASSIGNORS TO THE FIRM 0F WACHENHEIMER BROS., OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, COMPOSED 0F JACOB WAGHENI-IEIMER AND SAMUEL WACHENHEIMER, I

HENRY WACHENHEIMER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE BOTH on NEW YORK, 1v. 'Y., ANIl ISLAND, COPARTNEBS.

GARMENT-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. I5, I919.

Application filed March 23, 1918. Serial No. 224,193.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR M. L YOK- LAND and HARRY WACHENHEIMER, citlzens of the United States, and residents of the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a garment holder adapted more particularly for use in connecting together opposite edges of a soft collar or the like, and has for its object to provide such a holder comprising a connector having a pair of compressible grippers at either endadapted to be closed and looked upon adjacent garment members to retain these members in a ,given position relative to each other.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of. certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1' is a front view of a collar, showing the adjacent front edges thereof as retained in position about the tie by our holder member.

Fig. 2- is an enlarged front view of the device.

Fig. 3+ is an edge view of the device,

showing the jaw or gripper members as gether.

Fig. 7 is an end view showing the eye portions of one of the members illustrating the link-receiving notches formed therein. Fig. 8- illustrates the approximate angle to which the gripping members may be swung relative to each other.

Fig. 9- is a modification showing the whole connector. as formed of two oppositely disposed jaw members riveted together at its middle portion.

Referring to the drawings this garment connector is preferably constructed of a Pitllfif circular gripping members 10-10 which may be formed of any suitable resilient material but which are preferably formed of resilient sheet metal. Each of these members is formed from a length of the stock folded upon itself, providing oppositely disposed jaws 11 and 12 with a loop or eye 13 formed at the bend.

The end-portion of each jaw arm is shown as being formed a little wider than the body portion thereof, the corners 14. being sharpened and turned inwardly to provide engaging teeth to bite the fabric against the opposite jaw arm 12. I

These opposite jaw arms are arranged to stand normally apart as illustrated in Fig. 3

and the clamping band 15 is mounted to ble thus rendering it more easily applied to the edge of the collar.

, In order to accomplish this we have joined the two gripping members by a link 16 which passes through the adjacent eyes 13 providing a hinge oint between them, but we do not wish to be restricted to this particular flexible construction as the device may be made of two oppositely disposed continuous bars securely riveted or otherwise connected together at their middle portion as illustrated in Fig. 9.

In connecting these gripper members together, it is found to be of importance to so join them that their motion relative to each other is limited, that is these gripping members may be swung at a slight angle to each other on the hinge link so as to provide the necessary flexiblllty, but 'still retain the member in the same general position with relation to each other, and so that they can- 'not sw ng away around one upon the other.

- In order to accomplish this we have mo em a stop to control the extent of this swinging motion in both directions.

The device is extremely neat in appear ance, effective in its operation and when employed as a collar holder it grips and binds the fabric of the collar and holds the same in the desired position about the tie and that without the necessity of forming button-' holes,- perforations or otherwise disfiguring the collar fabric.

It will be noted that but one of each pair of the gripping jaws of this holder member is provided with inturned engaging teeth, which jaw is designed to engage the under side of the'coll-ar fabric, to bite and firmly retain it in the'desired position.

The foregoing description is directed solely toward the construction illustrated, but we desire it to be understood that we reserve the privilege of resorting to all the mechanical changes to which the device is susceptible, the invention being defined and claim.

\Ve claim:

A garment holder comprising a connector member having a pair of compressible grippers at each end, and a slidable clamp memher for each pair to close and bind the jaws of said grippers upon the garment, means for flexibly connecting said gri pers together, and means for limiting t iie movement of said grippers to swing slightly out of alinement one with the other.

In testimony whereof we affix our signa' Witness HOWARD E. BARLOW.

limited only by the terms of-the appended, 

